From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Annoyingly cautious make rules Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:00:18 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4ED6A772.3030101@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322690436 17711 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2011 22:00:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 30 23:00:30 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RVsCb-0000VQ-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:00:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVsCb-0000VT-FZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:00:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVsCT-0000Ts-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:00:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVsCS-0002sn-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:00:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:37435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVsCS-0002sZ-E7; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:00:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18335A6000A; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:00:19 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iNXc8Rsrfuc0; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:00:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7AB1EA60001; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:00:18 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146375 Archived-At: On 11/30/11 13:48, Richard Stallman wrote: > I ran config.status, hoping to avoid the 10 minutes it takes to run > configure on my machine, since I did that yesterday. But > config.status ran configure. That doesn't happen with me (see below). >From the Subject: line, it sounds like you're saying that a Makefile rule contains a dependency that it shouldn't, but it's not clear which dependency you're referring to. Currently we have: config.status: configure lisp/version.el # This one actually runs 'configure'. configure: configure.in aclocal.m4 Are any of these dependencies the one that caused your problem? $ ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib-src/Makefile config.status: creating oldXMenu/Makefile config.status: creating doc/emacs/Makefile config.status: creating doc/misc/Makefile config.status: creating doc/lispintro/Makefile config.status: creating doc/lispref/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating lwlib/Makefile config.status: creating lisp/Makefile config.status: creating leim/Makefile config.status: creating test/automated/Makefile config.status: creating src/config.h config.status: src/config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing mkdirs commands config.status: executing epaths commands creating src/epaths.h [ -r "/home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking/src/config.in" ] || ( cd /home/eggert/src/gnu/emacs/static-checking && autoheader ) config.status: executing gdbinit commands $